Blank label for book covers and method of applying same



0. POLANEK.

I BLANK LABELFOR BOOK GOV EH8 AND METHOD OF APPLYING SAME. APPLICATION FILED Nov. 1, 1920.

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732 53757 (Q45 fiag/ue Patented Nov. 21, 1922.

U i ij OTTO POLANEK, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BLANK LABEL FOR BOOK COVERS AND METHOD OF APPLYING SAME.

Application filed November 1, 1920.

T 0 all w 710m it may concern Be it known that I, Or'ro POLANEK, a citiZen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Blank I Labels for Book Covers and Methods of Applying Same, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to improvements in blank labels for book covers and method for applying same and particularly for the covers of memorandum books, with a view to subsequently exteriorly indicating on the label therefor the name of the owner or its number, title, etc., as may be desired.

The object of my invention is to provide the cover of a book with a blank label, the exposed surface of which is depressed below the outer surface of the cover for a book and which consists of a material upon which may be subsequently written with a pen or pencil or printed, the name of the owner or the number of the book or other identification therefor, and whereby said label is isolated from frictional wear and defacement to which the surrounding surface of the book is exposed, and especially when carried in the pocket of its user or owner.

A further object of my invention is to provide a cover of books with a blank label adapted to receive and retain marks identifying the ownership or contents of the book, the material of which necessitates the employment of both heat and pressure for its application thereto.

Another object of my invention is to provide the cover of a book with a blank label depressed below the exposed surface of the cover and adapted to be subsequently written or printed upon, the securing of which label in its operative position requires the simultaneous mechanical application of both heat and pressure.

With these ends in view, my invention finds embodiment in certain features of novelty in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts by which the said objects are attained, all as hereinafter fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In Said drawings,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the cover of a book in which my invention finds its embodiment.

Serial No. 420,991.

Fig. 2 is a transverse section taken through the cover for a book, on the line 22 of Fig. 1, and also illustrating respectively in front elevation and cross-section the transverse sheet following the removal of the material of the label therefrom.

For the illustration of my invention I have selected the cover for an ordinary pocket blank book or diary, the outer surface of which commonly consists of a comparatively thin woven fabric, artificial leather, and sometimes real leather folded upon itselfat 3 to form the opposite sides i4 of the cover, which fabric or leather is stiffened throughout except across its fold, by a lining 5 of paperboard which is preferably somewhat soft or spongy for purposes hereinafter described.

For applying the label 6 to the cover so constructed, the sheet of enameled paper 7 is laid with its enameled surface resting upon the cover or a suflicient portion thereof to conform to the predetermined size of the label to be applied to the cover, and thus arranged they are then projected between the fixed and a movable die of an ordinary die press and with the enameled sheet opposed to the surface of the movable die.

The surfaces of both dies are smooth and plain, with the contour of the movable die conforming to that of the label to be applied, the movable die being in a heated condition and, as may be, the fixed die.

The cover and the enameled sheet thus arranged are then projected between the two dies and while resting upon an ordinary fixed die (not shown) are subjected to the heat and pressure of the usual movable die 9, the compressive force of which is sufficient to force a substantial portion of the enamel from the paper, as indicated at 8, into the fibers of the cover, depressing the cover beneath the deposited enamel below the plane of the surface of the cover and the exposed surface of the enamel, to so harden and smooth the exposed surface of the enamel that characters for indicating the ownership, number or other identification of the contents of the cover may be conveniently and clearly written or printed upon the surface of the label so formed.

The use of a blank label consisting of enamel deposited from enameled paper, concurrently compressed and depressed into the surface of a cover with the exposed surface of a label in a plane below that of the surroundingsurface of the cover, is an important feature of my 1nvent1on,'result1ng, as it does, in isolating the surface of the label and thereby preventingithe printing; thereon tomer may desire, and that these labels may from being defaced by frictional wear to which the other portlonsoifithe coverare exposed in handlmg, pack ng n numbers for shipment, and particularlywhen carried inthe pocket. of the user 0t thememorandum sheets or other sheets contained between" the leaves of the cover.

At this point it is to be observedthat by the employment of a yielding or spongelike paper board as a lining forxthe coveri the depression for the'label may be made in the cover without showing on the exposed surface of the lining.

The color, of the enameled paper is preferably white, but itmay {be'tinted to suit the fancy, and in practice I have found from various tests and experience 'j that ordinary enameled paper cdmmqnly "on the market may -be used, and this whether itis enameled upon either'one or both of its surfaces; but

in practice I preferably usewhat is commonly designated and' known to the trade as paper'ffoil to ,but one surfaceof a sheet of which theenamel is applied and which is made by a secret process which I' do .not ,know and which has not yet beendisclosed to the trade.

' For the purposes of my invention there is, however, this diiterence,-that'the use of foilpaper requiresthat the ffabric of the cover be sized at the point of location' of the-label and with a sizing the character of 1 which is such thatit is fused by heat; where as, with the use of enameled paper made vby .any of the processes of common knowledge,: -no s z ng of'the cover is necessary, and if used results in the sticking ofitlie: fibers of the paper from which the enamel is deposited for the label and which cannot] be re- .moved Without defacing the labelitself.

In conclusion it is to be;observed that my invention includes the use; of any number ofblank labels. of any desired form or arangement for deposit books for banks and upon which may be subsequently written in:

ink, pencil, or printed by the bank, its tit-led the name of the depositor, and such other data OI IClGIItIfiCatIOH as the bank or its cus- .ent is:

l. A book cover the exposed surface of which Is provlded with a yielding material,

andla label therefor thesubstance'ot' which is dlrectlyunited' with said material and depressed in a planebelow the surrounding surface of the cover.

2. A book cover theexposed surface of which is provided with a yieldingfibrous material, and a label therefor" depressedin a' planeb'elow the surroundingsu-rface of 'the cover,"the substance ot-whichlabeldt rectly contacts with and is, united with said 3. A fabric book cover, providedwitha "blank label consisting of-dry enamel directly contacting with said; fabric and depressed inwardly therein in a plane below the .sur-

rounding fabric of the cover.

4. The herein described method -fo1'-' applying blank labels to book/covers, consistingin' -first applying to thetabric of -the "cover a sizin g melting underheat, overlaying the'sized portion of the fabric-with a loosesheet of enameled papenand then-sub- 

